Requiem for Hato Piņero? Ecological mess in the making in Venezuela?

The government has decided that the owners of Hato Piņero do not have the required documents to justify their hold on the land and thus expropriation proceedings will be started against them. What strikes most in the news is that the land will be "distributed" among landless peasants but no mention as to the ecological value of the land. Elsewhere I had read a few days ago that some portion will be preserved, but not who will be preserving it and how.

I am not too sure about the legal validity of all of this. For all that I now, maybe the Piņero folks did "steal" the land. But a few things are certain: